diligence

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.

Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

industry application attention care constancy industriousness assiduity heedfulness sedulousness stage activity effort resolution concentration resolve

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Antonyms

laxness abstraction neglect detachment negligence indifference

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Hypernyms

travail purpose effort determination sweat exertion

Hyponyms

concentration assiduity assiduousness sedulity sedulousness studiousness

Anagrams

ceilinged

Examples

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. George Mason

Diligence is the beginning of brilliance. Indonesian Proverb

Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless. Spanish Proverb

Diligence is the mother of good luck. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Dilhorne Dili dili-based diligency diligent diligent student